Tempering Emotion is really a big deal, a big work and at the same time, easy. Actually, it does not take a day, it is a gradual process, but you must be intentional about it. The following will help you to moderate your Emotions.
#1 React internally before you take it to the external: To be able achieve this, you need to move closer to yourself, talk to yourself first whenever your feeling is touched, either positively or negatively,the first and the best to do is to move closer to yourself, come to "You". If at all you need to talk, talk it to yourself first. In the name of Emotional expression, you can mistalk. In essence,the first way to react to feeling is not in words to who is not you. How? Any word that comes out of your mouth at the moment of emotional touch might not really be from your heart, and remember that words spoken are like seeds, they grow. So, at the moment, you need to talk to yourself not anybody, and in the process of doing that, you would be able to moderate your reactions.
#2 Identify or Name your feelings: In the process of internal reaction to your touch, you are able to identify how you really feel about the matter. At times, it might appear as if you were angery,but it might not anger, it might be something else. Let me share my experience with you. There was a time I was feeling uneasy with myself and people around me, it really felt like I was angry but when I came close to myself for a study, I realized it was not anger but jealousy. So, you must be able to identify and justify your feelings. If you are happy you would know you are really happy.
#3 Patience: Patience should be the first, however, it gives birth to the first two steps. What can ruin matters and things than wrong reactions to emotional touch has not existed. This is why we need to be very careful. It takes patience then to be able to moderate or temper your emotions. After identifying your feelings, you need to stay cool before you react externally. You need to patiently watch, then if necessary, you can now react externally.
#4 Holy Spirit: This generation is so lucky, we have the best manager with us in the person of Holy Spirit. Emotion is a natural part of human being that can be controlled, and best controlled by the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the third person in Trinity, He was sent to us by God to be the Governor/ The manager of our lives. If you have a deeper relationship with Him, I mean if He lives in you, you don't have any problem with emtional temper. He teaches and works out Patience in man. So, if you are touched Emotionally, the best to do is to switch to Him, talk to Him at that moment, either the emotion is positive or negative He moderates your reactions.
It is so important to understand this fact that, if you are not emotionally balanced, so be it for every other facets of your life. But, the good news is, we have God, we have the word of God, we have the Holy Spirit in us. He makes us balance.
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